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Page 45 of 1731904 · PDF PAGE 55
… too fierce and dry. With pale cheek and averted head The time is come to say Good-bye. On Life’s rough road we travel fast ; Some to be great, and some to wed. We are small men, the world is vast ; With our desires God is not fed. Some wield gold swords, or steel, or lead ; Some lose good heart, lay weapons by. Each lies in his own self-made bed. The time is come to say Good-bye. May God defend us from the blast, And smooth our path, and keep our head ! Be with us when we stand aghast, And quicken Faith when Hope has bled. 43
1912 · PDF PAGE 117
…d To the white bosom of its mother, As Christ clung to the gibbet-reed! Then every knight turned to his brother, Sobbing and sighing for great gladness; And, as they looked on one another,
1904 · PDF PAGE 18
…rom the voices of the animals he has studied long. Even a child knows the difference of a cat’s miauling and purring. The faculty may be greatly developed. (4) Business capacity may be stimulated. (5) Abnormal states of the body may be corrected, and the involved tissues brought back to tone, in obedience to currents started from the brain. So for all other phenomena. There is no effect which is truly and necessarily miraculous. Our Ceremonial Magic fines down, then, to a series of minute, though of course empirical, physiological experiments, …
1954 · PDF PAGE 146
…ophyte are crowned with flame, and the vault of the Adepts is lighted by the Rose. And in the abyss is the eye of the hawk. But upon the great sea shall the Master of the Temple find neither star nor moon. And I was about to answer him: "The light is within me." But before I could frame the words, he answered me with the great word that is the Key of the Abyss. And he said: Thou hast entered the night; dost thou yet lust for day? Sorrow is my name and affliction. I am girt about with tribulation . Here still hangs the Crucified One, and here th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 37
… But mix the manual and the mental—well, No ship was built by pure philosophy. POLLUX. Nor yet designed by artisans. JASON. Enough Come, great Alcides, it is time to go. ARGUS. A fool allows a moment’s irritation
1910 · PDF PAGE 170
…ose cold knees, a lost lagoon, To that wild woodland, strangely near To the lone tower that tops the moon ! Verily and Amen ! Unhewn The great grim forest menaces. What gardener may dare to prune Those woods to build me palaces ?
1910 · PDF PAGE 5
…also shall see God face to face. Thus shall we give back its youth to the world, for like tongues of triple flame we shall look upon the Great Deep—Hail unto the Lords of the Groves of Eleusis ! ” ALEISTER CROWLEY in “ Eleusis.” ALEISTER CROWLEY is one of those men who can never remain satisfied. His ambitions are insatiable. He desires the unattain- able with the fervour of a fanatic. Whether he is climbing volcanoes in Mexico or traversing the vast snowfields of Kinchinjunga, edit- ing a paper or playing golf, he proceeds on his way with swif…
1930 · PDF PAGE 28
A great majority of “spiritualists”, “occultists”, “Toshos- ophists”, are pitiable examples of repeated losses from this cause. The emotional type of religionist also suffers in this way. Dévotion projects the fine body, which is seized and vampirized by the démon masquerading as “Christ” or “Mary”, or whoever may be the object of worship. Complété absence of ail power to concentrate thought, to follow an argument, to formulate a Will, to hold fast to an opinion or a course of action, or even to keep a solemn oath, mark indelibly those who hâve…
1910 · PDF PAGE 129
…e, sky-blue, immaculate Hecate, in Thy book of Fate Read thou my name, the soaring soul That seeks the supreme, sunless goal ! And thou, great Sekhet, roar ! Confront the lion in the way ! Thy calm indomitable eyes Lift once, and look, and pierce, and slay !
1913 · PDF PAGE 585
…ich we have caused to be drawn at the head of our “ History of Magic.” By reuniting the four, one may arrive at the understanding of the Great Arcanum of Arcana. 287
1913 · PDF PAGE 585
…ich we have caused to be drawn at the head of our “ History of Magic.” By reuniting the four, one may arrive at the understanding of the Great Arcanum of Arcana. 287
1909 · PDF PAGE 100
…sailed by the same slanders that she has lived down, her book comes as a direct message from the Masters: “Courage, child !—there lies a great reward immediately beyond. Nay! but for the work’s sake, work! Though thou perish, let them be saved. And remember : there is not one single grain of dust that shall not attain to Buddhahood.” Self-doubt, and self-distrust : these find little place in Mrs. Besant’s story ; yet surely they attack all of us alike who strive to those calm heights. Is it that they are ultimately forgotten, like all lesser il…
1909 · PDF PAGE 100
…sailed by the same slanders that she has lived down, her book comes as a direct message from the Masters: “Courage, child !—there lies a great reward immediately beyond. Nay! but for the work’s sake, work! Though thou perish, let them be saved. And remember : there is not one single grain of dust that shall not attain to Buddhahood.” Self-doubt, and self-distrust : these find little place in Mrs. Besant’s story ; yet surely they attack all of us alike who strive to those calm heights. Is it that they are ultimately forgotten, like all lesser il…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…But the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly ail purposes human sacrifice is the best. The truly great Magician will be able to use his own blood, or possibly that of a disciple, and that without sacrificing the physical life irrevocably. 2 An example of this sacrifice is given in Chapter 44 of Liber 333. This Mass may be recommended generally for daiiy practice. One last Word on this subject. There is a Magical Operation of maximum importance: the Initiation of a New Aeon. When it becomes necessary to ut…
1996 · PDF PAGE 26
…ant when we say that woman has no soul. It explains fully the difference between the sexes.1 1 [Surviving fragment from “The Book of the Great Auk.” See also The Book ofThoth, pp. 15-16, and Part III of Book 4, Parts I-IV, rev. ed., p. 248n.] 2 [The “Star-Sponge” Vision was usually characterized by Crowley as “Nothingness with Twinkles”; see p. 79.] 3 [A lake in Bristol, New Hampshire.] 4 [A lengthy technical commentary to this verse, omitted by Dr. Wilkin son, is given as Appendix B in 777 Revised (1955); see Works Cited.] 4. Every number is …
1906 · PDF PAGE 281
…of death —— Scept. Shocks-—— Myst. Some incidents of earliest child- hood Scept. Memories which can be classed, and therefore fall under great headings; in- tellectual victories—-- Myst. Religious emotions Scepi. Ah! this minute too, for I group them! All these are intuitions which come near, which touch, which threaten, which alarm, the Ego itself! Myst. Yet in those great ecstasies of love, poetry, and their like; the Ego is altogether abased, absorbed in the belovéd: the pheno- menon is utterly objective. Scept. ‘To be abased is to be exalte…
1906 · PDF PAGE 221
…cunning to place Aleph over Tau read this reverse, and so beheld Eden, even now and in the flesh. Whence he sojourned far, and came to a great Emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts. And the Emperor (who is Solomon) told him of Sheba’s Land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. So he journeyed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour and light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed him those things that the Emperor had hidden; even the cubical stone and the cross be…
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
…well at once. I never felt better in my life. The devil take my trouble now ! I shall go out and conquer the whole world. I shall be the great magician, the Lord of the Stars. I have it in me to write poetry. Yes, that, first. (Goes to table and takes pen and paper.) In praise of — what is your medicine called, dear Marchioness ? LADY GLENSTRAE. Who calls me ? What is it ? Leave me alone ! SIR PERCY. Tell me, dear Lady — Maud ! LADY GLENSTRAE. Ah ! you are the boy. SIR PERCY. Your boy, queen ! LADY GLENSTRAE. Oh, yes, my boy. SIR PERCY. What is…
1929 · PDF PAGE 43
…n out. The next lesson will be of a more desperate sort — the kind that leads directly to action. Cyril broke in on the word. "We have a great deal to do," he said sharply, "even before we leave this house. It's pretty dark — and there's a Thing in the garden." [63]
1907 · PDF PAGE 56
36 KONX OM PAX earth-rise! How wonderful are the dark shadows on yon silver globe! They are like a hare, like a dog, like a bally great rabbit with its tail in its mouth. One would say a young virgin in pink sandals with her hair in curl papers.” (For the man in the moon has read Maeterlinck and the divine Oscar.) The Angel replied: “0 Man in the Moon, this is an error which is spoken concerning silver globes, hares, dogs, rabbits, Virgins, pink slippers, and the ubiquitous products of the immortal Hinde. Let us examine more closely l” Tucking …